Alice Duer Miller
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Alice Duer Miller (28 July 1874 - 22 August 1942) was an American writer and poet.
Miller was born in New York, from a wealthy family. At the time of her entrance in the society her family lost its fortune during a bank crisis. She entered the Barnard College in 1895 studying mathematics and astronomy. She paid for her studies selling novels and short essays.
Miller graduated in June 1899 and shortly after married Henry Wise Miller (October 1899) and left with him to Costa Rica. The economical success of her husband permitted her to dedicate entirely to writing. She returned to the United States in 1903.
Miller wrote mainly light fiction, but dedicated herself also to the problem of women's suffrage. She is the author of a satiric column in New York Tribune entitled "Are Women People?". In 1915 the column was collected in a book Are Women People and later Women are people! (1917).
In the 1920's some of her stories were used for motion pictures, taking her to Hollywood.
In 1940 she became famous for her book The White Cliffs. The story is of a British soldier marrying and American.
Works
The main works of Alice Duer Miller are ( (e-book) marks the books that are freely availables from Project Gutenberg in electronic format):
- Poems (1896)
- Modern Obstacle (1903)
- The Blue Arch (1910)
- Things (1914)
- Are Women People? (1915) (e-book (http://www.gutenberg.net/browse/BIBREC/BR11689.HTM))
- Come Out of the Kitchen (1916)
- Women Are People! (1917)
- Ladies Must Live (1917) (e-book (http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/2/7/8/12789/12789-8.txt))
- The Happiest Time of Their Lives (1918) (e-book (http://www.gutenberg.net/browse/BIBREC/BR11325.HTM))
- Wings in the night (1918)
- The Charm School (1919)
- The Beauty and the Bolshevist (1920) (e-book (http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/3/1/4/13146/13146-h/13146-h.htm))
- Priceless Pearl (1924)
- The Reluctant Duchess (1925)
- Forsaking All Others (1931)
- Gowns by Roberta (1933)
- The Rising Star (1935)
- And One Was beautiful (1937)
- The White Cliffs (1940)